The Hamlet Project

The boxing in of art
Breaking it up into ever more digestible bites
Until you can’t begin to identify what it was
The more we try to justify what we do
The more we try to prove our legitimacy
The more we try to show that we can be just like math
Or just like social studies
Or just like the gutted, castrated, all the blood drained version of humanities
The more we become what we were not
The more we lose what made us great
The more we break open the mystery
To understand how it works
The more mystery flies away into the night
Never to be seen again.